Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: What's Your Point (Of View)? Practice 6 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students about point of view in six lessons: Introduction, A Different Perspective, Person of Interest, Center of Attention, Vantage Point, and...
Graphic
Other

Mesa Public Schools: Author's Point of View [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Chart defines the three different points of view authors can use to express their ideas.
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Point of View Unit

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students first and third person point of view and the differences between them. Lessons are based on the books White Socks Only by Evelyn Coleman, Where...
Handout
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Compare Characters' Point of View

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Defines and explains how to show how different characters think and feel.
Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 8: The Call of the Wild

For Teachers 8th Standards
This unit explores human interaction with animals and nature. The literary texts illustrate various encounters between humans and animals from the perspective of both sides. Students learn how different points of view help readers...
Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Two Sides"

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes promoting the love of reading, helping students understand different points of view, different genres in literature, and critical thinking skills....
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Up Heartbreak Hill: Factors in a Successful College Experience Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson from POV, students will watch four video clips that provide glimpses into the lives of two high school seniors who live in New Mexico on the Navajo reservation. They will then analyze a current issue that Native Americans...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Mob's Voice vs. Hero's Voice

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, is used to get young scholars to explore point of view and issues related voice in writing and social justice. This lesson requires the students to analyze and...
Website
Other

The Hastings Center: Ethics of Medical Research With Animals

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of articles from a variety of experts with differing points of view on the subject of using animals for scientific research. Beyond these nine articles, the site provides links to many additional studies on the subject,...
Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Activity: Easter Island Mystery

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, you'll look at a single event-the collapse of the population on an island-from different points of view. You're going to try to make sense of what happened there, and you'll do this using an interdisciplinary approach....
Lesson Plan
New Zealand Ministry of Education

Nz Ministry of Education: Logging Up Reading Mileage

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Learners will select and enjoy their own range of contemporary and historical texts, display a knowledge of different genre and their particular content, and identify literary aspects of chosen texts for sustained silent reading. They...
Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 4: If You Lived at the Time of the Revolution

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders learn about the American Revolution and evaluate the decisions and choices colonists had to make leading up to and during their fight for freedom from England. Students explore the idea of taking sides and how, despite...
Graphic
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Problem Solving [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 9th Standards
A graphic organizer students can use to think about or solve a problem from three different points of view. A blank copy and a completed sample are both provided.
Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 8: The Tell Tale Heart

For Teachers 8th Standards
Eighth graders explore the role of the narrator and point of view in a text. Students will understand how the narrative voice of a text can blur the line between fact and fiction and how a story truth is often different from but relates...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Seeing Integration From Different Viewpoints

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
What does the world look like through someone else's eyes? Guide students in using colorful paper glasses to examine a story of school desegregation from multiple perspectives.
eBook
University of Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts: Aesop's Fables: "The Wind and the Sun"

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Learn about the power of kindness while reading this illustrated fable "The Wind and the Sun." Then read the same story with different illustrations to provide a new point of view.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Evaluate Tone in Various Media for Different Audiences & Purposes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson will help you evaluate changes in formality and tone within printed texts written for specific audiences and purposes. It focuses on writing produced during the Great Depression.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Shifts in Perspective in Informational & Persuasive Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will read informational texts and identify varying perspectives in different arguments on the same topic. You will also analyze the reasoning and the...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Lesson Plan (Affluenza): Be an Adbuster

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Through an integrated approach from PBS, students examine the messages conveyed in print advertisements. Using parody, students are asked to alter the message of an ad to present a different or opposite point of view. Lesson may be more...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: World on Fire: England Responds to Hitler

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the various points of view the British people had about fighting Hitler and Germany, in this video [1:26] excerpt from World on Fire, Masterpiece. Neither Robina Chase, an upper-class mother whose son is a soldier, nor Douglas...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Science and Religion

For Teachers 11th - 12th
A lesson using the strategy of structured academic controversy where students explore the roots of differing perspectives on evolution, In the process, they develop a deepened understanding of science and religion, and tolerance for...
Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 7: Excerpts From Behind the Scenes

For Teachers 7th Standards
Seventh graders explore a tumultuous period in our country's history during which people questioned political decisions, morals, and social norms. This unit presents opportunities for students to examine different perspectives through...
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Gorillas

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the lives of gorillas born in captivity in this video segment from Nature. [8:21]
Website
PBS

Pbs: p.o.v. Flag Wars (Economic Competition Between Two Social Classes)

For Students 9th - 10th
A case study in different points of view about the process of gentrification. Explore what happens when new residents move into an older African-American neighborhood. Where realtors and buyers see run-down homes in need of...